by Rajan Singh | Oct 16, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
When writing my Wharton MBA application, I was working right until the 2:30 am deadline. I was frantically working on my application essays in a Word document, saving the edits every few minutes. But in a last-minute panic, I mistakenly overwrote a recent version of...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 15, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Today during my morning run, I crossed a guy walking his dog (a sweet-looking labrador). But sadly, the dog was so overweight that even at a very slow pace, it was struggling to keep up — the owner had to keep pulling the leash to drag him along. Who would have...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 14, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
During a consulting project at McKinsey, every Monday morning, I had to drive 2-3 hours from New Jersey to the client’s office in Connecticut. One Sunday evening, when I went to bed, I barely had 6 hours left before my wake-up time. So I tried hard to fall...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 13, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Very early in my career, I developed severe back pain due to long hours of sitting. I knew that I should have gone for evening runs or sports, but I stayed late in the office to show that I was a sincere worker. But one of my bosses would regularly go for his tennis...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 10, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
In my very first job as a senior cop, I saw that many sub-inspectors of police were reluctant to take their weekly day-offs. When asked why, they said that ‘they could not afford to’ because of the work pressure. (Also, they would get some extra overtime...
